"Be More Pacific"

"Be More Pacific"

by Serendipitous | Published on February 24th, 2008, 5:18 pm | Life

Yuh huh. That's what my child said earlier.

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Oh yeah. I corrected him. Quickly!

"Pacific" instead of "specific" is one of my absolute biggest pet peeves when it comes to mispronunciations.

Soooooooooooooooooo, the floor is now open for you to share the common mispronunciations or misuses of words that annoy you the most.

I need to ax you sumpin about dat... :mrgreen:

One memory that has stuck with me for many years was from high school. I was in biology class one day, writing up a lab report, when the fellow in the seat next to me turns and asks me "How do you spell 'second'? -- Is it 's,e,c,o,n, t'?"

I said "No, it ends with 'd' "

He looked at me askance, and said, "Are you sure?"

Talk about living in "hillbilly hell"! :roll:

People that confuse "affect" with "effect" bug the hell out of me.

Using 'unique' as a comparative: "more unique", 'very unique' - it's a superlative, like 'perfect', 'best' etc

I still laugh at prostrate and prostate.

I always hear "fustrated" and I was picking some "punkins". I hate it when people call at work or come up to the counter and mumble with strong "Farmer Fran " accents. Half the time I cannot understand what the heck they're saying. It just sounds like "fkjdjnelkjdnbelkjhvkjgBobby Bouche" to me.

I've heard "flustrated" which I guess is mixing up "flustered" and "frustrated". gggrrrrrr

Well if we're going to include mispronunciations :mrgreen:

nukeyoular (Nuclear)
vee-hickle (vehicle)
boooey (Buoy 'boy')

Oh and 'rate of speed' is a pet peeve. Speed is a rate (of distance) - rate of speed would be an acceleration. It's usually dumb cops trying to sound impressive. "The vee-hickle left the scene at a high rate of speed." i.e. "the car drove away at high speed'

And mispronouncing buoy as 'booey' completely spoils the Benny Hill song:

Now I asked this Sheila what she'd do if she fell in the bay,
I said,"Would you tear your clothes off so that you could swim away?"
She said, "Well, I'd keep my blouse on, that's the method I'd employ.
You see, the air gets underneath it and it acts just like a buoy."